Governing with the more-than-human world

First, that the most creative and profound solutions to the most serious, knotty, systemic problems that we face can only be addressed through the application of radical cognitive diversity: the entrainment of the widest possible range of embodied viewpoints and experiences that we can muster. We must also recognize that cognitive diversity extends

The world is made up of subjects, not objects. Everything is really everyone, and all those beings have their own agency, points of view and forms of life. The more-than-human world demands our recognition, for without it we are nothing.

A world in which the environment itself was dominant, an ecological world, is of much longer duration and, despite the thoughtless exercise of our power, has never gone away. Indeed, the tumult in which we find ourselves today might be considered its violent reassertion.

Thus symbiosis provides one of the most powerful, empirical counterpoints to all our horror stories about the development of opaque technological infrastructures, of systems of analysis, determination and control, of dangerously asymmetrical intelligences and power relationships. It simply doesn’t have to be this way and, moreover, it doesn’t want